Hi kevin.verelst,
Well, there are many beautiful places in Bali, most of them are beaches such as : Kuta, Nusa Dua, Sanur, etc.
Please visit our official websiteYou can see beautiful sunset in Bali. You can take portrait, landscape photograpgh, etc.
Since i'm a new beginner in photography, I will take any chances to go there again . Try to visit bedugul, you will see a beautiful view..this is the famous place and must to be visited...
But that's not for landscape only, you can see art&culture event also.
That's why Bali called Island of God

Btw, if you wanna visit Java Island, which part of Java ? Well, there are many beautiful places that you can visit from West Java, Central Java and East Java. In West Java, there are many places like : Bandung (mountain & valley view). Central Java, you can see one of 7 wonders (at least when I was a kid) called Borobudur Temple, also many other temples like Prambanan and you can see any other historical places there. East Java has many places similar like West Java and Central Java.
If you need to know more, visit Indonesia Tourism site

I hope that can help you to schedule your trip...and have a nice trip...
btw, how long you will be there ? Well if only couple weeks, I hope you can enjoy the trip....

I'm going to tour java and than Bali. 2 nights in the same hotel and than on to the next one.

On java: Bandung, prambanan and Borobudurare on our schedule.
We will also visit: Tangkuban Perahu - Ciater - Bogor - Jogyakarta - Solo - Kalibaru . Oh and also the Bromo vulcano. the we will go to the top to see the uprise. i'm really loooking forward to get some good shots of that. (although I don't function well when I need to get up at 3:30 in the morning )

Of couse we will have several stops on the way. especially on Bali:
for example: Besakih , Beji Tempel , Tirta Empul well , lake of Batur ,...

Guess i will be more tired when I get back, than when I leave on holiday.

As for portaits: do people mind that you take their picture? (I would ask before of course)
I'm not used to do portaits but this is really something I want to more into while I think it's a very valuable aspect of travel photography.

Generally, indonesian peoples are welcome if you want take a picture for
portraits photograph, do not to worry about that.

All the places that you will visit are nice among the best It also depends on your tour guide how to manage that hectic schedule (around 2-3 days).
About the sunrise on Bromo Mountain, you need to go early, because if its already 4:30 am, I'm afraid you can't catch that moment (depends how far is your hotel).

I hope you can enjoy the trip and take valuable photographs that you look for. Do not forget your gears and I can't wait to see the result

hi, I'm back since a few weeks.
I did a little photoshopping and here are some results of 2 weeks Indonesia.
Please note that I'm not a big fan of photoshop, just use it for cropping and some little retouching. Especially when while I got about 1000 jpeg to do;
Anyway the results of 2 weeks of shooting were a little disappointing when i saw the pictures on my pc. But nothing that I can do about that now.

feedback (pos+neg) will be appriciated !!!

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Patti, yes it would be a great getaway.
It's called Tanah Lot ("Land in the Middle of the sea").
Unfortunately it's a temple and I don't think that tourist are still allowed.
In my case we weren't even able to reach it because of high tide.
Shooting from the main land was the only option.

I want to show more pictures...
Does anyone know a great (free) website to post many pictures?

Hi Kevin,
Welcome back! I think you had a great trip there and hope you were not tired as you said at your previous posting about the itinerary.
Anyway, Nice pictures.

If you want to post your picture you can register for free at www.flickr.com ... but off course they only allow you to upload picture not more than 100MB (CMIIW)..if you want more capacity you need to pay :p

There is another sites like imagevenue.com (similar like photobucket that you used it for posting all you pictures here) but they have some requirements such as:
* Image Types Allowed: jpeg, jpg
* maximum file size: 3 Megs
Pros :
* unlimited storage hosting period
* unlimited bandwidth
* no registration required